The House of Closed Doors, Jane Steen
The House of Closed Doors, Jane Steen
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The House of Closed Doors

Author: Jane Steen

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/18/2014

Synopsis

Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced.Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth"Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out.Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby she may have no safe place to run to.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on September 28, 2020

4.5 STARS "Take comfort in your little indisposition," he said. "She has brought great joy to your mother. It is strange, isn't it? The greatest gift you could have given her stemmed from your disgrace." Loved this first book in the series, and I'm anxious to move on. I am not at all happy with wh......more

Goodreads review by Emma on August 23, 2018

Enjoyable historical fiction set in the mid 19th century. A naive young girl becomes pregnant out of wedlock and is sent to a Poor Farm to have her baby. There is a discovery of the remains of a woman and her baby. There is an evil step father; our main character has very modern sensibilities that w......more

Goodreads review by Traci on September 26, 2012

I suppose this is an odd way to start a review (I use this sentence often…) but authorship is a career. At least, most people who do it seem to say that. Never been a published author, myself. Anyway, in a career, you win some and you lose some. You definitely can’t please everyone. Negativity happe......more

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